Here's How You (and Sophia Bush!) Can Help a Girl Get an Education

Yesterday was International Women's Day, and something awesome started that could help a lot of future leaders. Glamour partnered up with beauty accessories brand EcoTools and actress and advocate Sophia Bush for a great cause: ensuring that all girls, no matter where they live, get a great education. Well, actually, two great causes—Glamour is also working to empower women with a flood of positive messages about what makes them feel beautiful. Here's the deal: For every message about women's empowerment shared on social media using the hashtag #MyTrueBeauty and that tags @ecotools, EcoTools will donate $1—up to $100,000—to The Girl Project, Glamour's nonprofit initiative dedicated to sending girls to school. "We want to see girls have just as much access to education as anyone on the planet," Bush says. The idea is to fill social media with messages of female positivity and work to change a staggering statistic: 50 million girls worldwide are being denied access to secondary school. The Girl Project supports programs that help girls with the little and big things they need to finish their education—things like tuition, safe passage to school, mentorship, confidence-building programs, and training for the professional world. The struggle girls face when

Yesterday was International Women's Day, and something awesome started that could help a lot of future leaders. Glamour partnered up with beauty accessories brand EcoTools and actress and advocate Sophia Bush for a great cause: ensuring that all girls, no matter where they live, get a great education.

Well, actually, two great causes—Glamour is also working to empower women with a flood of positive messages about what makes them feel beautiful.

Here's the deal: For every message about women's empowerment shared on social media using the hashtag #MyTrueBeauty and that tags @ecotools, EcoTools will donate $1—up to $100,000—to The Girl Project, Glamour's nonprofit initiative dedicated to sending girls to school. "We want to see girls have just as much access to education as anyone on the planet," Bush says.

The idea is to fill social media with messages of female positivity and work to change a staggering statistic: 50 million girls worldwide are being denied access to secondary school. The Girl Project supports programs that help girls with the little and big things they need to finish their education—things like tuition, safe passage to school, mentorship, confidence-building programs, and training for the professional world.

The struggle girls face when trying to get an education may seem remote to many of us, but we can all relate to feeling less than great about ourselves. (Yes, even Sophia Bush can. "I'm still just a girl who lives in my body, who puts on water weight when she's PMSing and cries when she watches dog food commercials and breaks out and feels terrible about herself," she told us during an interview at the London hotel in Manhattan. "I'm a human.")

"It's like women all over the world are up against something that men are not, and I want to change that," Bush says. "Globally, when girls become educated, their children are so much better off, their families are so much better off, the economy is so much better off. The world is vastly improved when more women are educated—so let's educate all of them."